Archive for: July 2006

July 12, 2006

A learning object for the geographers out there

Filed under: Reflections - 12 Jul 2006

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I came across this learning object via Tom Smith’s blog. It reminded me of a previous life when we used to get kids to think about what indicators best illustrated the relative changes …

Mobile learning seminar - Dick Ng’ambi

Filed under: Reflections - 12 Jul 2006


Re-conceptualizing “contact” education: a case of mobile learning at the University of Cape Town

Dick talked in general about his work and HE education in South Africa. He works for the Centre for Educational Technology which has a remit to:
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July 11, 2006

SiteSucker - web archiving software

Filed under: Reviews - 11 Jul 2006

A neat application that for me will work as a replacement for the feature on Internet Explorer (no longer supported and getting very flaky with newer OSX operating systems) that allowed the downloading of whole websites rather than just …

July 6, 2006

Automatically generate PDF and other file formats from RSS (blog) feeds

Filed under: Reviews - 06 Jul 2006

Tom Smith put me onto xFruits, a web 2.0 service that for him is a “tool to help me ‚ÄòCompose my information system‚Äô”. After a few struggles I worked out that you need to be logged out …